Bomb-sniffing Dogs React, So Dieruff Is Evacuated

Students were evacuated from Dieruff High School in east Allentown in a bomb scare Thursday afternoon.

Bomb-sniffing dogs had reacted to something in students' lockers, but no bomb materials or drugs were found, said Allentown police Lt. Daryl Hendricks.

A threat was phoned to police at 12:11 p.m., and dogs went through the school while students were ushered into the school auditorium and gym, Hendricks said. When the dogs reacted, the building was evacuated, Hendricks said.

An Allentown bomb squad opened two lockers but found no bomb materials, said Deputy Fire Chief Greg Scheirer.

Students were cleared to re-enter the school about 2:45 p.m.

This was not the school's first bomb threat this academic year, and police have made arrests in some earlier incidents, Hendricks said.